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A person's talent is the product of society's accumulated knowledge
Drawn from what Pierre-Joseph Proudhon said
What Pierre-Joseph Proudhon actually said
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon French socialist and anarchist thinker (1809 to 1865)
Just as the creation of every instrument of production is the result of collective force, so also are a man's talent and knowledge the product of universal intelligence and of general knowledge slowly accumulated by a number of masters, and through the aid of many inferior industries.
Where this was said
↗What is Property? (1840; Benjamin Tucker translation)gutenberg.org
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